FINE ARTS - PICTURE POSTCARDS

Auction 81, 18-22 Nov 2024

52 lots

Lots

Lot 4831

[Authors and musicians]. "Liszt".

Real photo picture postcard, showing the composer looking to the left. "Jules Massenet". Real photo picure postcard, oval portrait (unused). "Rich. Wagner". Photogr. picture postcards, portrait (used). - AND approx. 40 others, mainly of composers, incl. 8 col. lithographed picture postcards (6x used).

Estimation 50 € – 70 €

Lot 4832

[Authors and musicians]. "Leo Tolstoj".

Real photo showing the author in his wheelchair, with an attendant beside him. AND 17 others, mainly real photos, i.a. of Emile ZOLA, Victor HUGO, Anatole FRANCE, George SAND, Emile AUGIER, Lecomte de l'ISLE (all fine), and Alphonse DAUDET, Guy de MAUPASSANT, Jules VERNE, Pierre LOTI, Edmond ROSTAND, Victorien SARDOU and Jean RICHEPIN (all fine but with biographical annot. in pen and ink in lower margin of image). - AND ±55 other postcards, mainly of French authors, almost all before 1940.

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 4834

[Eastern Europe]. Collection

of ±100 picture postcards, ±1900-1980, used and unused.

Estimation 150 € – 250 €Adjugé 150 €

Lot 4835

[Europe]. Collection

of ±500 picture postcards, ±1900-1970, used and unused.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4836

[Europe]. Collection

of ±1000 (col.) picture postcards, ±1900-1980 (mostly 1st half 20th cent.), used and unused, incl. a few picture postcard booklets, partly loosely inserted in 2 contemp. albums. ADDED: 5 (photogr.) souvenir booklets (Boston, Brussels, Göteborg, Hannover and Fjærland).

Estimation 200 € – 300 €Adjugé 325 €

Lot 4837

[Europe]. Collection

of ±1200 (col.) picture postcards, ±1900-1950, partly used, a smaller part w. undivided backs.

Estimation 300 € – 500 €Adjugé 300 €

Lot 4838

[France. Alpes-maritimes]. Collection

of ±600 picture postcards, mostly 1890-1930, partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in a contemp. cl. dec. album, folio. AND an album containing ±200 picture postcards with views of other Côte d'Azur places in the departement Var, i.a. St. Tropez, Toulon, Fréjus, Hyères, Saint-Raphaël, Giens, Sanary, Bandol and Draguignan.

Estimation 200 € – 300 €

Lot 4839

[France. Auvergne]. Collection

of ±450 picture postcards, ±1890-1930, party undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. dec. cl. album, large 4to.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4840

[France. Auvergne]. Collection

of ±800 picture postcards, ±1890-1930, partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in 2 contemp. not unif. dec. cl. albums, large 4to/ 8vo.

Estimation 200 € – 300 €Adjugé 200 €

Lot 4841

[France. Cher]. Collection

of ±400 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. dec. cl. album., obl. folio.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4844

[France. Drôme]. Collection

of ±150 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. giltlettered hcl. album, 4to. AND 2 other albums, containing ±130 picture postcards, views in the departement Ardeche and ±150 views in the departement Vauclucse.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4845

[France. Hautes-Pyrénées]. Collection

of ±400 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, contemp. dec. cl. album w. mounted col. plate, obl. folio.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4846

[France. Isère]. Collection

of ±400 picture postcards, ±1890-1930, partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. handpainted cl. album, obl. folio.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4847

[France. Loir-et-cher]. Collection

of ±250 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. dec. cl. album, 4to. AND a similar album with ±300 views in the departement Eure-et-Loir.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4848

[France. Loire]. Collection

of ±310 (col.) picture postcards, mostly 1890-1920, partly undivided backs, partly unused, loosely inserted in 2 modern/ contemp. cl. albums (1x w. dec. on frontcover), 4to.

Estimation 60 € – 80 €

Lot 4849

[France. Monte-Carlo]. Collection

of ±125 (col.) picture postcards, mostly 1890-1930, partly undivided backs, partly unused, loosely inserted in modern rexine album, 4to.

Estimation 60 € – 80 €Adjugé 60 €

Lot 4850

[France. Orne and Manche]. Collection

of ±400 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. dec. cl. album, obl. folio. AND 2 other albums w. views in the departements Lot-et-Garonne and Vendée.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4851

[France. Paris]. Collection

of ±1200 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), oatrly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in 2 contemp. not unif. dec. cl. albums, obl. folio/ folio.

Estimation 300 € – 500 €

Lot 4852

[France. Somme]. Collection

of ±350 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. clothbacked dec. board album, obl. folio. AND 1 similar album with views in the departement Oise (±150 picture postcards).

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4853

[France. Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne]. Collection

of ±130 picture postcards, ±1890-1930 (mostly before 1920), partly undivided backs, partly unused, kept in contemp. dec. cl. album, 4to. AND another similar album with ±260 picture postcards with views in the departements Lozère, Aude and Pyrénées Orientales.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 100 €

Lot 4859

[Indonesia]. Collection

of 72 picture postcards, all loosely inserted in decorated silk leaves in an attractive and well preserved Japanese black lacquer album, w. gilt morocco spine and w. pict frontcover with inlaid mother of pearl scene of a bird descending on a flowering tree branch, obl. 4to.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 400 €

Lot 4860

Lot

of ±1300 picture postcards, mostly foreign (and Dutch) topography, ±1900-1980 (mostly before 1950), loose and in contemp. cl. album.

Estimation 200 € – 300 €Adjugé 200 €

Lot 4861

[Militaria]. Collection

of ±160 picture postcards, ±1910-1920, mostly real photogr. postcards, used and unused.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 4863

[Music]. Lot

of ±100 picture postcards, almost all pre-1950, incl. a few real photogr. cards, i.a. Wouter HUTSCHENRUYTER, Vanni MARCOUX (SIGNED), Willem MENGELBERG, Anna KAPPEL, otherwise incl. portrait postcards of Antonin DVORÁK, Franz LISZT (2x), Sergei RACHMANINOFF, Johann STRAUSS, Giacomo PUCCINI, Max BRUCH, Arthur NIKISCH, Camille SAINT-SAËNS, Richard WAGNER, Manuel de FALLA, Johannes BRAHMS, César FRANCK, Modeste MOUSSORGSKY and Charles GOUNOD.

Estimation 80 € – 100 €

Lot 4864

[Netherlands]. Collection

of ±120 (col.) picture postcards, ±1900-1950, used and unused. ADDED: ±20 others, incl. wishing cards, humourous cards etc., i.a. a birthday card w. adjustable date (on rotating discs) and a postcard showing a young lady at the seashore, when held towards the light revealing her bathing suit.

Estimation 100 € – 150 €Adjugé 300 €

Lot 4865

[Netherlands]. Collection

of ±400 picture postcards, ±1900-1970, used and unused.

Estimation 150 € – 250 €Adjugé 150 €

Lot 4866

[Netherlands]. Collection

of ±900 (col.) picture postcards, ±1899-1940, mainly early 20th century, all but a few photographic, mostly used, partly with undivided backs.

Estimation 400 € – 600 €Adjugé 1 400 €

Lot 4867

[Netherlands]. Collection

of ±1500 (col.) picture postcards, ±1900-1970 (mostly pre-war), loosely inserted in 4 contemp. cl. albums, folio.

Estimation 400 € – 600 €Adjugé 700 €

Lot 4868

[Phantasy]. Collection

of ±170 picture postcards, ±1900-1931, mostly used, incl. multi-layered postcards, w. embossing/ embroidery etc.

Estimation 80 € – 100 €Adjugé 80 €

Lot 4869

[Royalty]. Collection

of ±90 picture postcards, ±1910-1930, used and unused, loosely inserted in 2 contemp. cl. albums.

Estimation 30 € – 50 €Adjugé 60 €

Lot 4870

[Royalty]. Collection

of ±120 picture postcards, ±1900-1940, mainly Southern and Eastern European royal families, incl. real-photographs, mostly unused.

Estimation 150 € – 250 €Adjugé 160 €

Lot 4871

[Royalty]. Collection

of ±140 picture postcards, incl. many real photos, almost all between ±1900-1940, used and unused, occas. w. identification on recto in pen and ink.

Estimation 150 € – 250 €Adjugé 160 €

Lot 4872

[Royalty]. Collection

of ±410 picture postcards, ±1900-1940, mainly Bavarian royal family, incl. real photographs, mostly unused, occas. identified in ms. on recto.

Estimation 300 € – 500 €Adjugé 325 €

Lot 4873

[Russia]. Collection

of ±300 (col.) picture postcards, early 20th cent. (pre-Revolution), all photographic, all w. undivided backs, unused, loosely inserted in giltlettered calfbacked pict. cl., obl. folio. AND with ±100 picture postcards of Vienna in the same album.

Estimation 500 € – 700 €Adjugé 500 €

Lot 4874

[Ships]. Collection

of ±180 picture postcards, ±1900-1960, used and unused.

Estimation 70 € – 90 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 4875

[Ships]. Collection

of ±245 (col.) picture postcards, ±1920-1980 (mostly post-war).

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 80 €

Lot 4876

[Switzerland, France and Germany]. Collection

of ±800 (col.) picture postcards, ±1900-1940, mostly used, partly w. undivided backs, loosely inserted in 2 contemp. mor. albums, 4to/ folio. ADDED: an album containing snapshots from a trip to Germany, Austria and Italy (±1950).

Estimation 150 € – 250 €

Lot 4877

[Varia]. Collection

of ±75 picture postcards, mainly ±1910-1950, in 4 modern obl. 8vo albums.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €

Lot 4878

[Varia]. Collection

of 150 (col.) picture postcards, ±1910-1940, mostly used.

Estimation 50 € – 70 €Adjugé 70 €

Lot 4879

[World exhibitions]. Collection

of 40 (col.) picture postcards, all Belgium, used and unused. AND 2 picture postcard souvenir booklets (both Antwerp 1930).

Estimation 70 € – 90 €

Lot 4880

[World War I]. Collection

of ±465 picture postcards, almost all 1914-1918, all French, incl. num. real photographs and several col. postcards, together in orig. pict. and blindst. cl. album w. caption "Souvenir de la Campagne" on frontcover, obl. 4to.

Estimation 500 € – 700 €